MOBILE, Alabama - Losers of four straight Southern League series, the Mobile BayBears got started on the right foot in their latest five-game set on Friday night at Hank Aaron Stadium. Pitcher Archie Bradley made sure of that.

Bradley pitched his first nine-inning complete game as a professional as the BayBears beat the Jackson Generals 5-1.

Bradley (7-5) gave up one unearned run while yielding six hits and one walk and striking out seven.

"Archie was outstanding," Mobile manager Andy Green said. "He did a great job. He had some pitches he thought were strikes early in the game that weren't called, and he did a great job of staying with his process the whole game. That's what you want to see in his maturation process. It was exciting to see him do that."

The 20-year-old right-hander picked up his first pitching victory since June 27. The right-hander posted a 5-1 record in his first seven starts for the BayBears after coming up from Single-A Visalia, but had a 1-4 mark in his previous eight outings.

On Friday, he looked more like his dominant self - with some help from his fielders. Bradley allowed a baserunner in three of the first four innings. But when he walked off the mound in the middle of the fourth, he'd faced just 12 batters.

Catcher Rossmel Perez threw out Chris Taylor trying to steal after he'd started the game with a single. The BayBears turned a double play after a walk in the third. Taylor led off the fourth with a bloop hit down the right-field line, but was gunned down by second baseman Mike Freeman while trying for a double.

"That was a great play by Freeman," Green said. "He hustled over to the ball, picked it up and fired a strike to second base. Rosie Perez threw out two potential stolen bases. When you give a good pitcher those outs, he kind of builds with the momentum, and that's what Archie did."

Mobile had scored only 10 runs in its previous seven games, but got on the board in the first. Justin Greene led off inning with a double off the left-field fence, one of his three hits and two doubles in the game. Nick Ahmed moved Greene to third with a groundout to second, and Nick Evans got him home with a sacrifice fly.

In the bottom of the fifth, Perez put down a bunt that turned out to be worth two runs.

After Garrett Weber singled to open the inning, third baseman Ramon Morla couldn't backhand Freeman's grounder. A wild pitch moved up the runners, but Weber was thrown out at the plate from behind the pitcher's mound by shortstop Gabriel Noriega on Keon Broxton's chopper.

Perez put down a sacrifice bunt that scored Freeman and moved Broxton to second, where he could score on Greene's two-out single.

"That's something we've been preaching a lot lately," Green said. "Just doing the little things. And he did that extremely well."

Nick Evans, on with one of his three walks in the game, scored on Freeman's sacrifice fly in the sixth to give Mobile a 4-0 lead.

Jackson's three pitchers walked seven batters, including Evans again after Ryan Court led off the bottom of the eighth with a single. Dustin Martin advanced the runners with a chopper to first, and pinch runner Ender Inciarte scored when Weber's bouncer eluded diving first baseman Dan Paolini, although second baseman Taylor scooped it up and raced to first for the putout.

Back in Mobile after a 10-game road trip, the BayBears scored in four innings in a game for the first time since July 19.

"We've been in a little bit of a funk offensively," Green said, "but it's good to be back at home, even though this isn't the hitter-friendliest ballpark in the world. You saw some guys with some good, aggressive swings today."

Jackson's run off Bradley came after an error by Bradley. After retiring the first two batters in the eighth, the Mobile pitcher couldn't find the handle on Mike Dowd's slow roller. Noriega made him pay for it by lacing a double down the right-field line.

Bradley had pitched eight innings for the BayBears just once previously in his only previous professional complete game - a loss to Chattanooga on May 29.

But he came back for the ninth, and the BayBears' second 6-4-3 double play ended the game.

"He was under his pitch count," Green said. "He finished just under the 110 mark, which we were fine with. He looked incredibly strong late. He's earned the right to finish that baseball game."

Both teams are in third place in their divisions in the second-half standings. Mobile is 21-20 in the South. Jackson is 18-20 in the North. For the 2013 season, the BayBears are 60-50 and the Generals are 47-57.